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History's People: Personalities and the Past by Margaret MacMillan
40.00 NZD
Category: History
In this year's highly anticipated Massey Lectures, internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the memorable figures of the past, women and men, who have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. The actions of Hitler, Sta ...Show more
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed The World (aka Peacemakers) by Margaret MacMILLAN
29.99 NZD
Category: History
Previously published as Peacemakers Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau. Kings, prime minist ...Show more
The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret MacMillan
29.99 NZD
Category: History
History is useful when it is used properly: to understand why we and those we must deal with think and react in certain ways. It can offer examples to inform our decisions and guesses about the consequences of our actions. But we should be wary of looking to history for dogmatic lessons.We should distru ...Show more
The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret MacMillan
37.99 NZD
Category: History
The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini, and promptly invaded Iraq. Were they wrong to look to history for guidance? No; their mistake was to exagg ...Show more
The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan
55.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This is the definitive history of the political, cultural, military and personal forces which shaped Europe's path to the Great War. The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked ...Show more
The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan
29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: WARTHE
WINNER of the International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book Awards 2014Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked int ...Show more
War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil. The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a militar ...Show more
War - How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
45.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil. The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a militar ...Show more
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